Onesiker

Onesiker, also known as Sike, is a graffiti artist born in 1975 in Saigon. He arrived in Toulouse at the age of five and began doing graffiti in 1990 in the streets of the city, where he became a well-known Toulouse train writer.

After travelling around Europe, Onesiker settled in Montreal in 1991 and took part in the birth of graffiti in the city, which counts him among its pioneers. He often travels to New York. In the late 1990s, he founded South Painters, a graffiti shop and urban art gallery that served as headquarters for a generation of graffiti writers. The venture came to an end in 2024.

Onesiker also works in the studio, without ever stopping painting in the street. He uses spray paint, acrylic and fire extinguishers, on canvas, sheet metal or concrete. His canvases take up fragments of his own tags and throw-ups, cut up to the point of abstraction, in soft or fluorescent colours. Lettering always remains present.

Onesiker paints at the Mister Freeze festival in Toulouse. In September 2023, at the All Caps festival in Rotterdam, he covered an entire viaduct in six days, using an airless sprayer and a fire extinguisher, helped by two assistants on an aerial platform.